There must be greater minds than mine out there who can explain when it is acceptable to take a knee. Personally, I think to make a spectacle out of yourself is little more than a cry for attention in any case. Coach could have taken a knee before coming onto the field or he could have done it quietly on the sidelines. “Oh Look At Me” displays do not impress me but fair is fair. I do not think this Coach believes in his cause any less than Kapperdick believes in his. One is chastised and one is revered.
Category: Diversity
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“I Don’t believe you, but even if I did it would not matter at this point.”
You might have seen something about this issue in the news:
A number of Hollywood stars have come to the defense of Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at a high school party in the 1980s.
The video, produced by the progressive group MoveOn, features “women from all walks of life,” including actresses America Ferrera, Julianne Moore and Gabrielle Union.
This is sooooooooo moving. Get your hankies out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEvHrtTUFIU
You people can not imagine the things I would be accused of from my High School days. If the story about me showing up for a date with a Weedeater, some KoolWhip, and a Live Chicken ever surfaces…I didn’t know the girl was allergic to feathers. Honestly.
Yenz can reach out to empathize with this “survivor” at this LINK.
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Tucker Carlson Nails It
Tucker Carlson to Dems: Since ‘Diversity Is Our Strength’ Is Our New National Motto, Please Be Specific as You Explain It
I’m a fan of Tucker, and try to catch his nightly show at 2000L. Last Friday on Fox News Channel’s eponymous “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” he took it to the so-called Washington, D.C. resistance movement by questioning exactly what they supported in their capacity as the “resistance.”
Carlson also asked about the phrase “diversity is our strength” as a slogan and wanted to know how that was the case, and he takes both on, which is our subject at hand.
Partial transcript as follows:
CARLSON: They’ve talked a lot about norms, called a lot of people racist, and tried to make anyone who disagrees with them shut up. And, of course, they’ve lectured us endlessly about something called diversity as if that answers some relevant question.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
OBAMA: Our diversity, our patchwork heritage, is not a weakness. It is still and always will be one of our greatest strengths.
BERNARD SANDERS, POLITICIAN, JUNIOR UNITED STATES SENATOR, VERMONT: Our diversity is one of our greatest strengths.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Our great strength lies in our diversity.
HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES, AMERICAN POLITICIAN AND DIPLOMAT: We know our diversity is a strength, not a weakness.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CARLSON: Well they all agree on that. It’s hard to know exactly what it means though other than stop talking or else. We won’t stop talking.
If the President’s going to be removed from office without a single vote from anybody outside Washington D.C., then we deserve to have some simple questions answered, and we mean answered for real, not just with a sneer and a ticket to the H.R. department for sensitivity training. So here it goes.
First, how is our current immigration system made America more stable and more prosperous? In your answer, please explain what happened to the State of California? Used to be called the Golden State. Had a thriving middle class. Had the country’s best schools.
Now the schools in California are a complete disaster. The middle class is vanishing, and the nation’s largest mass of impoverished people remains behind to serve a tiny pool of tech oligarchs. How exactly did that happen?
Next, how precisely is diversity our strength? Since you’ve made this our new national motto, please be specific as you explain it. Can you think, for example, of other institutions such as, I don’t know, marriage or military units in which the less people have in common, the more cohesive they are?
Do you get along better with your neighbors, your coworkers if you can’t understand each other or share no common values? Please be honest as you answer this question.
And if diversity is our strength, why is it OK for the rest of us to surrender one of our central rights, freedom of speech, to just a handful of tech monopolies? And by the way, if your ideas are so obviously true why does anyone who question them need to be shamed, silenced and fired?
How about this question? After spending two centuries overcoming our country’s painful history of racial discrimination and hatred, why is it once again acceptable, even encouraged, to attack people on the basis of their skin color?
And by the way, since we’re asking if it’s now possible to change your sex, is it possible to change your race too? If not, tell us why and be specific.
Damn fine questions, Tucker. He’s racist, of course, for even asking them, which is about the only answer he’ll get.
As a govvie, I get exposed to diversity-bots just about every day, and I’m heartily sick of it. I mean, if I was say Hispanic, and I received NAVAIR’s Hispanic Engineer of the Month, Quarter, or whatever, Award, I’d be insulted.
I’m not good enough to compete with engineers of other colors?
This smacks of a participation award. How about simply “Engineer of the Whatever, Award, and leave it at that. Tellingly, there is no “Caucasian Engineer of the -place time duration here- Award. If they come up with a Polish/German/Welsh/and God knows what else/, award, I’m in.
Another 16 months or so and I can ride into the sunset, as far from diversity as I can get. Then I can spend more time here, giving Dave headaches.
As for Tucker’s last question, ask Rachel Dolezal.
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